Gov. Roy Cooper has commuted what have been lengthy sentences served by six criminal offenders in state prisons — five of ...

North Carolina public schools can seek financial assistance from the state to take students on field trips to state museums, ...

A young man was shot Thursday in an east Raleigh neighborhood days after Gov. Roy Cooper announced a three-year plan to fight ...

Roy Cooper's veto of a bill that would expand state ... relief package Cooper signed into law while calling for more funding.

Late Wednesday, Governor Roy Cooper announced he had commuted the sentences of six people in North Carolina prisons and ...

Even after wrongfully convicted people in North Carolina are exonerated, they aren't eligible for restitution for their time in prison unless also pardoned by the governor.